000646–I suggest that we need to teach our children some very important fundamentals.
(sorry, I’m a list person)
1)how to balance a checkbook-meaning be completely responsible when it comes to spending money. Be accountable and don’t spend unnecessarily. Always pay off credit cards fully, and if you can’t then buy less.
2)learn how to live modestly and be proud of it. Feel the essence of what it’s like to live with less and enjoy it.
3)Teach our bochurim how to be smart with in between time to help out with bringing in money-tutoring, learning with others who will pay him etc.
4)Teach our girls (by living it) the true zechus of what it is to be married to a ben torah, and to appreciate the mesiras nefesh, and to demystify the notion that it’s simple and easy. Hard work isn’t bad, it’s just hard.